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Ilia Kamyshev

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arXiv2025

Fusion-ResNet: A Lightweight multi-label NILM Model Using PCA-ICA Feature Fusion

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an advanced load monitoring technique that uses data-driven algorithms to disaggregate the total power consumption of a household into the consumption of individual appliances. However, real-world NILM deployment still faces major challenges, including overfitting, low model generalization, and disaggregating a large number of appliances operating at the same time. To address these challenges, this work proposes an end-to-end framework for the NILM classification task, which consists of high-frequency labeled data, a feature extraction method, and a lightweight neural network. Within this framework, we introduce a novel feature extraction method that fuses Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) features. Moreover, we propose a lightweight architecture for multi-label NILM classification (Fusion-ResNet). The proposed feature-based model achieves a higher $F1$ score on average and across different appliances compared to state-of-the-art NILM classifiers while minimizing the training and inference time. Finally, we assessed the performance of our model against baselines with a varying number of simultaneously active devices. Results demonstrate that Fusion-ResNet is relatively robust to stress conditions with up to 15 concurrently active appliances.

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arXiv2025

HiFAKES: Synthetic High-Frequency NILM Data for NILM Models Diagnostics and Generalization Testing

Monitoring electricity consumption at the appliance level is crucial for increasing energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. Using a single meter, the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) breaks down household consumption down to appliance-level, providing comprehensive insights into end-user electricity behavior. NILM models are trained on a household's total power consumption paired with submetered appliance labels. When sampled at high frequencies ($\geq$ 1 kHz), these datasets capture the full waveform characteristics, significantly improving disaggregation accuracy and model generalization. Nevertheless, such datasets are scarce, collected from a limited number of households, and rarely include labels for power estimation, which complicates their use for model training, evaluation, or debugging. We propose HiFAKES, a pre-trained synthetic data generator that can instantly generate unlimited amounts of fully labeled high-frequency NILM data, including aggregated and submetered current signatures. The data is ready-to-use and annotated for load identification (classification) and power estimation (regression). It allows simulating seen and completely unseen scenarios of appliances' behavior with full control over the number of appliance classes, operational modes, class similarity, brand diversity, and the number of concurrently running devices. We propose a structured methodology to test the generalization of NILM models on simulated unseen households. The reliability of the HiFAKES synthetic data is assessed using a domain-agnostic 3-dimensional metric. The generated signatures achieve high realism (93\% authenticity), closely resemble real-world data (84\% fidelity), and include a reasonable portion of unseen signatures (5\%).

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arXiv2025

Indoor thermal comfort management: A Bayesian machine-learning approach to data denoising and dynamics prediction of HVAC systems

The optimal management of a building's microclimate to satisfy the occupants' needs and objectives in terms of comfort, energy efficiency, and costs is particularly challenging. This complexity arises from the non-linear, time-dependent interactions among all the variables of the control problem and the changing internal and external constraints. Focusing on the accurate modeling of the indoor temperature, we propose a data-driven approach to address this challenge. We account for thermal inertia, non-linear effects, small perturbations of the indoor climate dynamics caused by ventilation and weather variations, as well as for the stochastic nature of the control system due to the observed noise in the input signal. Since the prohibitive cost of quality data acquisition and processing limits the implementation of data-driven approaches for real-life problems, we applied a method that merges several Bayesian machine learning and deep learning architectures that are suitable for predicting complex system dynamics, while relaxing the dataset quality requirements. Our framework includes a built-in deep Kalman filter, which makes it deployable even with low-accuracy temperature sensors. It achieves state-of-the-art performance, best performing with a 150-minute prediction horizon with an RMSE of 0.2455, an MAE of 0.162, and an $R^2$ of 0.926. The model's performance remains consistent even when exposed to highly noisy data. Finally, we show how our approach can be extended to other applications including demand response event duration prediction and equipment failure detection.

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arXiv2025

Toward Explainable NILM: Real-Time Event-Based NILM Framework for High-Frequency Data

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an advanced, and cost-effective technique for monitoring appliance-level energy consumption. However, its adaptability is hindered by the lack of transparency and explainability. To address this challenge, this paper presents an explainable, real-time, event-based NILM framework specifically designed for high-frequency datasets. The proposed framework ensures transparency at every stage by integrating a z-score-based event detector, appliance signature estimation, Fourier-based feature extraction, an XG-Boost classifier, and post hoc SHAP analysis. The SHAP analysis further quantifies the contribution of individual features, such as cosine of specific harmonic phases, to appliance classification. The framework is trained and evaluated on the PLAID dataset, and achieved a classification accuracy of 90% while maintaining low computational requirements and a latency of less than one second.

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arXiv2025

Enhancing Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring with Features Extracted by Independent Component Analysis

In this paper, a novel neural network architecture is proposed to address the challenges in energy disaggregation algorithms. These challenges include the limited availability of data and the complexity of disaggregating a large number of appliances operating simultaneously. The proposed model utilizes independent component analysis as the backbone of the neural network and is evaluated using the F1-score for varying numbers of appliances working concurrently. Our results demonstrate that the model is less prone to overfitting, exhibits low complexity, and effectively decomposes signals with many individual components. Furthermore, we show that the proposed model outperforms existing algorithms when applied to real-world data.

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arXiv2025

COLD: Concurrent Loads Disaggregator for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

The global effort toward renewable energy and the electrification of energy-intensive sectors have significantly increased the demand for electricity, making energy efficiency a critical focus. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables detailed analyses of household electricity usage by disaggregating the total power consumption into individual appliance-level data. In this paper, we propose COLD (Concurrent Loads Disaggregator), a transformer-based model specifically designed to address the challenges of disaggregating high-frequency data with multiple simultaneously working devices. COLD supports up to 42 devices and accurately handles scenarios with up to 11 concurrent loads, achieving 95% load identification accuracy and 82% disaggregation performance on the test data. In addition, we introduce a new fully labeled high-frequency NILM dataset for load disaggregation derived from the UK-DALE 16 kHz dataset. Finally, we analyze the decline in NILM model performance as the number of concurrent loads increases.

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arXiv2024

Physics-informed appliance signatures generator for energy disaggregation

Energy disaggregation is a promising solution to access detailed information on energy consumption in a household, by itemizing its total energy consumption. However, in real-world applications, overfitting remains a challenging problem for data-driven disaggregation methods. First, the available real-world datasets are biased towards the most frequently used appliances. Second, both real and synthetic publicly-available datasets are limited in number of appliances, which may not be sufficient for a disaggregation algorithm to learn complex relations among different types of appliances and their states. To address the lack of appliance data, we propose two physics-informed data generators: one for high sampling rate signals (kHz) and another for low sampling rate signals (Hz). These generators rely on prior knowledge of the physics of appliance energy consumption, and are capable of simulating a virtually unlimited number of different appliances and their corresponding signatures for any time period. Both methods involve defining a mathematical model, selecting centroids corresponding to individual appliances, sampling model parameters around each centroid, and finally substituting the obtained parameters into the mathematical model. Additionally, by using Principal Component Analysis and Kullback-Leibler divergence, we demonstrate that our methods significantly outperform the previous approaches.

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